<div class="gmail_quote">[Forwarding from K.R. Srivathsan, via Subbiah Arunachalam. This is a presentation at International Conference on Digital Libraries. New Delhi, February 23-26, 2010.</div><div class="gmail_quote">--Peter Suber.]</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Srivathsan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:srivathsan@ignou.ac.in" target="_blank">srivathsan@ignou.ac.in</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>My tutorial...is on "<b>Open Distributed Technology Enabled Learning</b>". The title and abstract of my talk are as follows. </div>
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<div><b><u>TITLE</u>: </b>"<b>Integration of Digital Libraries and Open E-Learning Systems</b>" </div><div><br></div><div>Authors: K.R. Srivathsan and Sukant Kole</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>ABSTRACT</u>: </b></div>
<div><br></div><div><b></b>With Open Content, Open Access Publishing, Open Courseware, and Open Education Resources rapidly growing, the logical next stage in the global developments in education will be how to establish formal Open Education System. Towards this, IGNOU has developed and now deploying the 'Open Distributed Technology Enabled Learning', or, ODTEL for its courses. ODTEL is a unified open e-Learning framework for open university systems, conventional classroom type education and various mix of blended learning systems that use multiple modes (like Internet, printed materials, TV, Webinar, Community Radio, Mobile, etc.) of reaching and engaging learners in focused learning activities. </div>
<div><br></div><div>In such an e-learning framework we have the capability of contextualizing the content by linking relevant digital library and open access resources postings in the learning modules. However as a course is run, we create formal as well as not-so-formal new e-content like the Assignment Postings, new recorded video lectures, term papers and links to new library accumulations. Now there is the two-way flow of content from the digital library to the course as well as new content postings submitted by the teachers and the class in several courses to be screened, filtered, classified and posted in to the Digital Library of the institution or organization. Such library collections may be formal, semi-structured or non-formal. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Our challenge is to develop an interface system in the Digital Library of the organization that allows for receiving such content from multiple sources or courses, and postings in web pages. We present such content feeds to a Library Reception interface, have them screened and filteredby librarians and redirect them with annotated library type metadata framework like Dublin Core with suitable extensions. Similarly as and when new digital library collections are added, we need to present a Digital Library interface to the users at large, indicate titles of such collections with keywords and abstract so that course instructors are encouraged to link such content to their applicable course modules. </div>
<div><br></div><div>At IGNOU we are working on such a two-way linked Digital Library interface using a Wiki with suitable extensions that hosts the IGNOU Open Course Guide (IOCG) for the Open Education, a back end Content Management System (CMS) that gets feeds from the IOCG wiki pages and an interface that helps the librarians to take applicable contents to the library collections in the metadata framework of the library. The talk will summarize the architectural and management principles of such two-way linked Libray - e-Learning interface. We also show how this new system conforms to the spirit of the 'Five Laws of Library Science'. Such a system as the one under development is also a powerful tool in managing community library portals with front end social networking services.</div>
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